Bangladesh has appointed former India all-rounder Sridharan Sriram as technical advisor to the nationwide group until the T20 World Cup in Australia later this 12 months.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan, nonetheless, rubbished stories that Sriram has been made the nationwide group’s coach. “We had shortlisted Sriram and he has to return right here on August 21 (August). He is unquestionably not coming in as the top coach. He is coming as a technical advisor. He is coming right here to work until the T20 World Cup. Australia will host the T20 World Cup from 16 October to 13 November.
A high BCB official mentioned the 46-year-old Indian’s huge teaching expertise with the Australian group and IPL aspect Royal Challengers Bangalore influenced the board to decide on him for a brief stint.
“A few things were kept in mind while taking him on the ship. One is his IPL involvement and we wanted someone who is involved in high grade T20 cricket and has experience. The World Cup is also in Australia and he has worked in Australia for a long time. For these two reasons, he was roped in as a technical advisor,” Haasan mentioned. Sriram represented India in eight ODIs between 2000 and 2004 and in addition served as Australia’s assistant and spin-bowling coach for a very long time.
It was beneath former Australian coach Darren Lehmann, Sriram was given the duty as spin bowling coach in 2016. He not too long ago stepped down from that place to deal with his position with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Hasan, nonetheless, mentioned {that a} choice on Sriram’s lengthy tenure can be taken after assessing his efficiency within the Asia Cup beginning subsequent week. “In phrases of separating issues (dividing the teaching duties), it’s most well-liked that we separate the teaching workers as nicely. But we won’t say something for the time being as a result of we’ve not determined who to tackle the ship.
“We should see Sriram within the Asia Cup after which determine based mostly on the efficiency whether or not we are going to maintain him or search for another person.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
